Do you have any amazing names or name stories in your family tree?
I recently learned that my great-great-grandmother Minnie Belle had a twin Myrtle Delle. And to tell them apart in pictures, their parents had Minnie hold a little bell in her hand! 
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A few from my family tree you don’t see every day:
Nuphrey
[name_m]Aloysius[/name_m]
[name_f]Pearl[/name_f]
[name_f]Bertha[/name_f]
[name_f]Maureen[/name_f]
[name_f]Adele[/name_f]
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That is a great story (and picture!)
I don’t have any stories to rival that, sadly, but a few interesting names from my family tree are…
[name_m]Tyre[/name_m] (pronounced TYOOR-ah)
[name_u]Nesta[/name_u]
[name_f]Delphi[/name_f]
Dias (pronounced DEE-as)
Sapphia
Heneage (pronounced HEN-idge)
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Here’s some of my favs that I can remember~
[name_m]Dionisio[/name_m]
[name_m]Saturnino[/name_m]
[name_m]Casimiro[/name_m]
[name_m]Inocencio[/name_m]
Leocadio
[name_m]Aurelio[/name_m]
[name_m]Blas[/name_m]
Paxadéma
[name_f]Octavia[/name_f] (ohk-tah-vyah) (quite a few, a lot were nicknamed Sabas)
Sabas (as a full this time)
[name_u]Maria[/name_u] [name_m]Mateo[/name_m]
La O
[name_f]Rosalia[/name_f]
[name_f]Petronila[/name_f]
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Most of my great-grandparents were alive into my teens or 20s, so I had the pleasure of knowing them. One of my great-grandmothers was named [name_f]Virginia[/name_f], which I love. She was married to [name_u]Arthur[/name_u], which has been passed down a couple times as a middle name in my family. I also had a great-grandfather named Craditt. I am not sure where the name came from – it doesn’t show up elsewhere in the tree – but it is interesting.
As far as names from ancestors I did not have the opportunity to meet, I have a handful of favorites.
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[name_f]Ida[/name_f]
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[name_m]Oscar[/name_m]
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[name_u]Corrie[/name_u] – Female
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[name_f]Julia[/name_f]
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[name_f]Louisa[/name_f]
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[name_f]Clarinda[/name_f]
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[name_f]Drusilla[/name_f]
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Cisiro
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[name_u]Elias[/name_u]
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[name_m]Hugh[/name_m]
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[name_u]Riley[/name_u] – Surname
There are a couple names I don’t necessarily like but do find interesting as well, including [name_f]Narcissa[/name_f] and Mahulda.
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I think the most interesting name from my family is [name_f]Zenaida[/name_f]! It was my great-grandma’s name and she actually ended up naming her daughter after herself which I think is very fun.
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So many cool options! (How is Sabas short for Octavia?)
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Honestly I have no idea 
there’s a ton in my fam, the closest relative was my great-great grandma but it appears a lot in the line. Us Puerto Rican’s can have some pretty odd names at times the closest relative other than an Octavia is Inocencio who is my great-great-great grandfather who raised my great grandma Carmen Delia (always went by Delia (dehl-yah), she’s who I have Kahlo and Adele in my UC for)
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[name_f]My[/name_f] favorites from my tree:
[name_m]Wilbur[/name_m], Ecca, [name_f]Zaida[/name_f], [name_m]Rafael[/name_m], [name_f]Ina[/name_f] & [name_f]Suzanne[/name_f]!
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a couple months ago I went through my grandma’s ancestry.com papers and, ignoring any other information, just searched for interesting names! so I made a massive list!
🖤 enter at your own risk!
Francyntje
Herrick
Johannes
Judah
Ephraim
Reuben
Permilia
Ferdinand
Minerva
Janette
Serena
Asa
Archibald
Silas
Virginia
Orville
Louisa
Elvira
Salathiel
Clarinda
Ursula
Lucretia
Fary
Valona
Leatha
Marshall
Myrtle
Vena
Reuben Doliver
Shadrack
Solomon
Serana
Marcellus
Naomi
Johin
Minnie
Jennings
Eleanor
Lenora
Rosella
Peleg
Zilpah
Lusannah
Cephas
Alden
Theodora
Marian Adele
Atherton
Uriah
Ichabod
Mercy
Salumith (f)
Amzi
Luna
Alpheus
Selah
Jephthah
Lucia
Ira
Ezra
Charlemagne
Charlotte
Barker
Parmenia
Lurana
Seth
Lysander
Clarissa
Amelia
Rufus
Oliver
Ellis
Bathsheba
Perez
Welthea (multiple ppl named Weltha & Welthy??)
Wadsworth
Asenah
Thaddeus
Julius
Lavinia
Zylpha
Cornelius
Gamaliel
Sylvanus
Briggs
Wealthea
Mahala
Clement
Jeanette
Lemuel
Isaachar Josselyn
Charles Augustus
Laurilla
Adelia
Wiswell Seabury
Melzar
Wales
Philander
Hiram
Lewis Sylvester
Evelyne
Melvia
Malinda Annette
Millard
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Hehe I’m related to a bunch of kings and queens of England/Scotland/France. (their names aren’t very interesting though)
Summary
[name_m]Edmund[/name_m]
[name_m]Archibald[/name_m]
[name_f]Gisela[/name_f] [name_f]Grizel[/name_f]
[name_f]Phebe[/name_f]
Archelaus
[name_f]Evalina[/name_f]
[name_f]Lydia[/name_f]
[name_m]Ebenezer[/name_m]
[name_f]Arabella[/name_f]
[name_f]Audrey[/name_f] [name_f]Arlene[/name_f]
[name_f]Nellie[/name_f] [name_f]Lenore[/name_f]
[name_f]Clytie[/name_f] (g)
[name_f]Annette[/name_f] Lucice
[name_f]Genevieve[/name_f] [name_f]Willeen[/name_f]
[name_f]Genevieve[/name_f] [name_f]Annette[/name_f]
[name_f]Iris[/name_f] [name_f]Margaret[/name_f]
[name_f]Della[/name_f] [name_f]Mae[/name_f]
[name_f]Lota[/name_f]
[name_u]Alma[/name_u]
Iwana [name_f]Sue[/name_f] (i wanna sue lol)
[name_f]Sallie[/name_f] [name_f]Josephine[/name_f] (who i’m named after 
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[name_f]Mahala[/name_f]
[name_f]Eva[/name_f]
[name_u]Experience[/name_u] x2 (g)
[name_u]Rees[/name_u] x3
Anguish (oof) (b)
Waltkin (b)
Gwenlian
[name_m]Hywel[/name_m] (b)
[name_f]Angharad[/name_f] (g)
[name_u]Morgan[/name_u] (b)
[name_u]Valentine[/name_u]
[name_f]Constance[/name_f]
[name_f]Martha[/name_f] [name_f]Ida[/name_f]
[name_u]Ellis[/name_u] Ellerby (b)
[name_f]Dicy[/name_f] (g)
[name_m]Hosea[/name_m]
[name_f]Druscilla[/name_f] [name_f]Agnes[/name_f]
[name_m]Isaac[/name_m] [name_m]Isaiah[/name_m]
[name_m]Hans[/name_m]
[name_f]Marina[/name_f]
[name_u]Jessee[/name_u]
[name_f]Winnifred[/name_f] [name_f]Viola[/name_f]
[name_u]Amos[/name_u] x2
[name_f]Gloria[/name_f] [name_u]Gene[/name_u]
Gladelle
[name_f]Aletha[/name_f] [name_f]Belle[/name_f]
[name_f]Judith[/name_f]
Absolom
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We both have a [name_f]Minnie[/name_f]!
Also LOL to being named [name_m]Philander[/name_m] 
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There were twins in my family called Elizabeth and Katherine who went by Lil and Kate, which I think is very darling!
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i have a great grandfather with the name hugo maximilian 
which i love, of course
some other family names:
walter
elizabeth
lou (just lou!)
aurora
alexander
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definitely, poor child! 
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I’ve spent countless hours on ancestry, so I have a million name stories.
One of the nicest combos I’ve been thinking about lately is [name_f]Lena[/name_f] [name_u]Morgan[/name_u] LastName.
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There’s only one name that I think it’s a bit different that I’ll share;
[name_m]Otto[/name_m] from my paternal side
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Some of my favorites are [name_m]Oreste[/name_m] (Resto), [name_m]Lazaro[/name_m], Eusebia, [name_u]Trinidad[/name_u], [name_m]Dario[/name_m], [name_u]Claude[/name_u] and [name_f]Bellona[/name_f] (a surname!)
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I LOVE [name_f]Adele[/name_f], it would totally be on my list if not for the popularity of, well, you know, [name_f]Adele[/name_f].
Amazing list! What is La O? First and middle?